The growing adoption of all-flash storage arrays, a decline in infrastructure prices, and the increasing adoption of unified storage architectures will help the overall datacenter market to grow over the next four years, a new report argues.

Mainframe computing specialist Compuware has hooked its Topaz for Total Test unit testing tool into several DevOps platforms, including the Jenkins source code automation server, the SonarQube continuous code inspection platform and its own ISPW source-code and release-automation solution.

In a bid to become the high-performance and super-computing systems leader, Lenovo announced a revamp of its entire datacenter portfolio, describing the move as its largest and broadest rollout of new and refreshed hardware.

A new Nano Server configuration will shrink its image footprint by 50 percent and remove its infrastructure role as Microsoft focuses on a headless configuration option for deployment of container-based environments.